Bluegiga Technologies, a leading provider of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity modules, today announced its new BLE113 Bluetooth Smart module. The BLE113 is an addition to the Bluegiga Bluetooth Smart product family, offering thirty percent lower peak power consumption, thirty percent smaller size and a hardware I2C interface simplifying connectivity to MEMS peripheral sensors. BLE113 also includes features, such as on-board application hosting, flexible peripheral interfaces, and very low power sleep modes.

"Our BLE112 was one of the first Bluetooth Smart modules on the market when it was launched in 2010.By launching our BLE113 we want to maintain our leadership position in Bluetooth Smart andprovideour customers a feature rich module that supportslong battery life applications in a significantly smaller footprint.", comments Mikko Savolainen, VP of Product Management and Marketing.

One of the main benefits of BLE113 Bluetooth Smart module is its capability to host custom applications. The Bluegiga Bluetooth Smart SDK allows applications to be developed for the BLE113 with the Bluegiga BGScriptTM scripting language. In addition, Bluetooth Smart profiles can be quickly developed with the Bluegiga Profile ToolkitTM.

BLE113 Key Features and Benefits:

Bluetooth v. 4.0, single mode compliant

Supports master and slave modes

Up to eight connections

Integrated Bluetooth Smart stack

GAP, GATT, L2CAP and SMP

Bluetooth Smart profiles

Radio performance

Transmit power : 0 dBm to -23 dBm

Receiver sensitivity: -93 dBm

Ultra low current consumption

Transmit: 18.2 mA (0 dBm)

Transmit: 14.3 mA (0 dBm and DC/DC)

Receive: 14.3 mA

Sleep mode 3: 0.4 uA

Flexible peripheral interfaces

UART and SPI

I2C, PWM and GPIO

12-bit ADC

Host interface:

UART

On-board application hosting for stand-alone operation

Dimensions: 9.15 x 15.75 x 1.9 mm

Bluetooth, CE, FCC, IC, South Korea and Japan qualified

Engineering samples and development kits will be available from Bluegiga's authorized distributors in April 2013. Mass production is in June 2013.